La Canfora: Wallace has played last "down" for steelers: seeking $10-11 million

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Why should I be taking notes of what you're posting? Fans want players to be signed on appropriate contracts, not overspend just to overspend.

We are currently paying Dansby as if he were Ray Lewis in his prime. But hey let's give Mike a contract like Larry Fitzgerald it's just cap space not our money. That's how we do it here, bribe marginal stars with money and the weather.

Why should I be taking notes of what you're posting? Fans want players to be signed on appropriate contracts, not overspend just to overspend.

We are currently paying Dansby as if he were Ray Lewis in his prime. But hey let's give Mike a contract like Larry Fitzgerald it's just cap space not our money. That's how we do it here, bribe marginal stars with money and the weather.

mando seriously it's getting old. I can't wait until we sign Wallace to 10 mil a year and you complain about it. I do however wish I could visit an alternate reality where we don't sign Wallace, and he signs elsewhere for 10 million and you bitch that Ireland was too cheap to sign a playmaker. Because i'm calling it now, you'd bitch not matter what we do this offseason.

"I didn't feel like we had to score," Tannehill said. "I had the mindset we were going to score."

Hartline six million? Okay done.
Long 12 million? Okay done.
Starks you want 6 million? Sure it's not our money who cares, go ahead get it done Ireland.
Fasano you want 5 million? YOU'RE AT THE RIGHT PLACE, the fans don't care about how the cap space is spent, done.
Smith you want 10 million per year like Carr? Ireland pay that overrated guy, it's not your money it's just team cap space.

Jones would you like an extension? Just one moment though you see we just recklessly spent our cap space and even though you're the only one that actually deserves a new contract let me see if we can actually pay you. But hey the fans should not care if we lose you in the future to a better managed team as it is not their money.

If Mike Wallace isn't worth it, who the hell is??? At 26, he'd be a force in our offense for the next several years. Wallace is a true number 1 receiver that this offense needs. He may not know the offense like a Greg Jennings, but he's still capable of putting up 1200 yards and 10 TDs any given season with his speed alone. THAT'S the kind of playmaking ability we need on this offense...that's the kind of go to receiver Tannehill could use.

Just pay him and then lets move on and build a dang team instead of trying to save money and undervalue players

You present a false argument. There is no objective data that supports a linear correlation with team success and spending excessively in free agency. In fact, I would argue that the upper echelon teams (in terms of consistency) are selective with free agency and build through solid drafting (Packers, Steelers, Ravens, Patriots, 49'ers, Giants) and teams that traditonally spend heavily in free agency have little to show for it (Redskins, Bills, Eagles)

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You present a false argument. There is no objective data that supports a linear correlation with team success and spending excessively in free agency. In fact, I would argue that the upper echelon teams (in terms of consistency) are selective with free agency and build through solid drafting (Packers (favre, rogers) , Steelers (Big Ben), Ravens (flacco) , Patriots (Brady), 49'ers (kaepernick) , Giants(Eli) and teams that traditonally spend heavily in free agency have little to show for it (Redskins (no QB until this year), Bills (overpaid Fitz), Eagles(Run Down Vick, although they went to several NFC championship games with Mcnabb))

hmmm more than the money spent on free agent pickups, those teams you list have franchise or close to franchise guys, and again it's been proven with few exceptions that great teams have great Quarterbacks.